New features

From within Award Force, users with membership to two or more accounts on Award Force now have a link to My Award Force (from the user menu, top right), where you can switch between all your accounts. You can also access My Award Force from this website by clicking “Log in” in the menu.

Program managers can copy entries between accounts from within My Award Force.

A new implementation of our payment gateway integration with Stripe, supporting Stripe's preferred/current integration method has been completed. The existing Stripe integration remains appended with "(Legacy)" in payment gateway settings.

Entries can now be individually archived, in bulk. Archived entries are safely retained, but locked and hidden away from your main working areas.

The “Entry name” field label can now be specified per category.

Improvements

Discount codes can now be configured to limit their usage. Limit usage by number of uses or maximum uses per user.

Our API “Entry” end-point now includes attachment field information, along with attachments information.

Improved performance when copying multiple entries with large attachments.

The new “Entries by category” report now has an Excel/CSV export option.

For VIP judging score sets, the judge's own summary in their “list view” now shows the mean score, when that is the selected option for a score set.

New features

Report functionality is here. The first report “Entries by category” has recently been released, and is accessed from the Dashboard. Look for the Full report link at the bottom of the entries by category widget.

Settings events are now being recorded to the audit log. E.g. when updating general settings, payments settings or theme settings, these events are now visible in the audit log.

New interface text override option for "My entries: No entries". Use this text override if you’d like to change the default message when a user has no entries.

Two new professional language translations are now available: Polish and Czech

Improvements

With category export, you can now include the description as an optional column.

New features

Under GDPR, data subjects have the right to request all of data held on/about them, and in a format that could be transferred to other software/systems— we now have a tool in place for users to be able to request this directly themselves (saving you a lot of manual effort) from within their user profile and then download a securely encrypted Zip file package of all their data.

Improvements

Performance improvement for panel configurations.

Improved protection and optimisation to deal with automated (bot) traffic.

Some dashboard widgets are now cached, to improve dashboard/application load speed.

The export configurator control for selecting columns to include in exports now have controls to “Clear all” and “Add all” columns, with one click.

Subscription and cookie consent preferences are now available as optional columns on the users list view and users export.

The Award Force interface has received a few subtle yet impressive improvements:

Checkbox and radio button styling

Slightly darker text has been implemented system-wide for improved legibility

Action button improvements

Typography refinements

General UI improvements

The Audit log has received several new improvements:

New search UI

Columns can now be arranged and that configuration can be saved

Over 10 new resource events are now logged, including fund events, role events and chapter events.

New features

Award Force’s very own advanced bot detection + blocking has just been released.

A new content block for use with pre-paid entries is now available.

Teaser alert! We have undertaken a new and exciting project which will add even more to the incredible value offered by Award Force. Is it your Award Force or “My Award Force”? Keep watching this space!

Improvements

Table field type aesthetic improvements.

In judging views, file upload fields now have a direct download link.

In a judging view, using the slider for scoring now includes a numeric indicator for even better scoring accuracy.

Review exports now include the review URL, allowing you to send emails to reviewers outside of Award Force.

New features

Users can now provide cookie consent for necessary cookies, cookies used for analytics and cookies used for marketing, in line with GDPR requirements.

In the last month, the Engineering team has been working on some major new feature development. So not much new has been released, but some exciting developments are on the way in the coming months— watch this space!

New features

Four new language translations have been added. Simplified Chinese, Russian, Korean and Japanese.

An improved CAPTCHA service called “FunCaptcha” has been added to protect registration from bots. Unlike Google’s reCaptcha used previously, FunCaptcha works in China. And it’s more fun!

Prepaid entries are now enabled, allowing programs to request payment before the entry process.

New API endpoints for orders and order items are available. For more on our API see here.

Orders are now searchable. Search by order number, transaction ID, username or user email address.

Two new “order” related widgets can be found on your dashboard alongside “data volume”. One deals with the total submitted cart orders value and the other deals with an estimation of cart orders based on entries in progress.

We now give you the option to collect billing details if an entry invoice amounts to $0.

Improvements

Changes to the “File upload” field data in the entries export:Entries export used to list an ID for an attachment uploaded to file upload (single) fields. Now, we list the original name of the file that was uploaded making it easier to identify a file itemised in the export. Handy if you want to add files to your CRM.

Search and filtering on archived seasons is now much faster and will result in fewer timeouts.